Release Dashboard

Get information and status on past, present, and future Liferay releases.

Release Information and Schedule

Liferay generally aims to do a new release every 12-18 months, with update releases inbetween each major release. Each release has an associated name (for example Liferay Social Office 2.0 CE GA1) and numeric version (for example 6.2.10). You can read details about the versioning and the release process on the Versioning Policy page.

When new releases are planned or released, they will appear on this page. To get notified, subscribe to the RSS feed at the bottom of the page, or get involved with our various community programs to keep abreast of latest developments.

Getting Support

Support for Liferay Portal comes from the wonderful and active community, from which Liferay itself was nurtured into the enterprise offering it is today. Please visit the community pages to find out more about the myriad avenues through which you can get your questions answered.

Liferay and its worldwide partner network also provide services, support, training, and consulting around its flagship enterprise offering, Liferay Portal EE, which is generally released 1-2 months after each Community Edition release.

Releases

Current (Stable) Releases

Liferay Developer Studio 2.2.1 GA2

February 2015

Release Details (click to expand)

Liferay Developer Studio is the official set of Eclipse plug-ins supporting development for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition application platform.

It is available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins installable from an update-site. The latest version supports developing 5 Liferay plug-in types: portlets, hooks, layout templates, themes, and EXT-style plug-ins. Liferay Developer Studio requires the Eclipse Java EE developer package using either Galileo or Helios versions.

Liferay Developer Studio is also available to current or potential EE customers that includes support for Websphere and Weblogic server adapters. For a free trial version, click the Trial Download link!

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay chapter of the Liferay User Guide for more detail on upgrading to 6.2.

Release Naming

Following Liferay's official versioning scheme, this release is Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA3. The internal version number is 6.2.2. Future CE releases of 6.2 will be designated GA4, GA5, .. and so on (assuming they are needed to fix issues, which is not always the case). See below for upgrade instructions from 6.2.x, 6.1.x, 6.0.x, and 5.x.

Downloads

You will soon be able to find the 6.2 CE GA3 release on the usual liferay.com downloads page, but until tomorrow you'll have to use SourceForge directly as we are still updating the website. If you need additional files (for example, the source code, or dependency libraries), you can find them on SourceForge as well.

Known Issues

One of the things you get with a regular release cycle is the peace of mind of knowing that releases don't have to be held up by minor issues - it can get fixed in the next release, and no one should have to suffer delays because of really minor issues. There are a couple of items we found during testing that were deemed not to be "showstoppers" and will likely be fixed in the next release.

Our community has been instrumental in identifying the areas of improvement, and we are constantly updating the documentation to fill in any gaps. Check out Rich's blog for more detail on how you can get involved.

Support Matrix

Liferay recently published the official compatibility matrix for 6.1 and 6.2. This is the official support matrix for our Enterprise Subscription customers, but it's a pretty good reference for CE as well. If you're wondering where Java 8 support is at, it'sexpected in the next release (we don't typically add new supported platform software in a maintenance release, and Java 8 wasn't ready when 6.2 was).

Liferay Marketplace

Most Liferay-authored Marketplace plugins were updated to support 6.2 GA1 when it was first released, and remain compatible with this updated GA3 release.

If you are a Marketplace Developer, and have authored a 6.2 CE GA1- or GA2-compatible app, you should ensure your app continues to work with this 6.2 CE GA3 release. It is Liferay's aim to remain compatible within a given release family, so in the unlikely event that your app works with GA2 but NOT GA3, you will need to make any necessary changes and re-submit, and let the Marketplace team know about any incompatibilities you discovered. Chances are you will have nothing to do (since you declared compatibility with 6.2.0+, which includes 6.2.2).

Bug Reporting

As always, the project continues to use issues.liferay.com to report and manage bug and feature requests. If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release (shocking, I know), please be cognizant of the bug reporting standards and report your issue on issues.liferay.com, selecting the 6.2.2 CE GA3 release as the value for the Affects Version/s field.

Upgrading

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay information on the Liferay Developer Network for more detail on upgrading to this release.

Getting Support

Support for Liferay 6.2 CE comes from the wonderful and active community, from which Liferay itself was nurtured into the enterprise offering it is today. Please visit the community pages to find out more about the myriad avenues through which you can get your questions answered, and check out the new Liferay Developer Network for technical resources during your Liferay journey.

Also note that customers on existing releases such as 6.0 and 6.1 continue to be professionally supported, and the documentation, source, and other ancillary data about these releases will remain in place.

What's Next

Of course we in the Liferay Community are interested in your take on the new features in Liferay 6.2 and the updates in this GA3 release. Work has already begun on the next evolution of Liferay, based on user feedback and community ideas. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved, put on your participation hat and dig in.

As I mentioned earlier, we will start doing regular open source releases of Liferay Portal every 6 months, until the next major release. So if you find bugs in this or previous releases, and want to up their priority to get them fixed, be sure to use JIRA and vote for your favorite issues!

Kudos!

This release was produced by Liferay's worldwide portal engineering team, and involved many hours of development, testing, writing documentation, translating, testing some more, and working with the wider Liferay community of customers, partners, and open source developers to incorporate all sorts of contributions, both big and small. We are glad you have chosen to use Liferay, and hope that it meets or exceeds your expectations!

In addition to Liferay's engineering staff, a special thanks goes to the many open source developers who volunteered their time and energy to help with the release, whether it was bugfixing, idea generation, documentation, translations, testing, or other contribution that helped to improve this release. Check out the Community Contributor Hall of Fame and be sure to thank them if you run across them in the community (or add your name if you have contributed and are not listed).

Social Office 3.1 EE provides several improvements over version 3.0 EE, released earlier in the year. You can view the changelog (follow the link above) to get a complete list of fixes and enhancements.

What's New

Improved Dockbar Notifications

More control over site creation

A new mobile responsive theme

[See the full list]

Bug Reporting

As always, the project continues to use the Social Office JIRA site to report and manage bug and improvement tickets (EE customers should use LESA). If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release (shocking, I know), please be cognizant of the bug reporting standards and report your issue on issues.liferay.com, selecting the SOS project and the "3.1 EE" release as the value for the Affects Version/s field.

The Liferay Mobile SDK makes it easier to create mobile apps that are connected to Liferay portals: it takes care of authentication, services discovery, JSON parsing and server error handling for you. It hides complexity from the developer and almost feels like you are making local service calls from a plugin.

For those developers who are familar with Service Builder, the Mobile SDK can be seen as a client side code generator. For each new Liferay Portal version, there will be a corresponding Mobile SDK version that you can use to consume portal core services. Since the SDK is auto-generated, it also means that you can generate client side code for your custom portlet services as well. Right now the Mobile SDK supports iOS and Android.

Liferay Sync is Liferay's newest product, designed to make file sharing as easy as a simple drag-and-drop! It exposes and synchronizes content and documents to both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android. It'll also log all your document changes and versions.

Version 1.2.1 is a bug fix release and includes various fixes for issues that were discovered subsequent to releasing Desktop 1.2.0 GA1. More information can be found in the Release Notes.

Liferay Social Office is a social collaboration solution for the enterprise that streamlines communication, saves time, builds group cohesion and raises productivity. It is built on Liferay Portal, and shares much of its functionality.

What's New

Social Office 3.0 contains a variety of bug fixes (see release notes) and is now available for download from Liferay's Marketplace. For those already using Social Office, you will have the option to upgrade through the Marketplace page in your portal Control Panel. Thanks for your input on our previous release!

Social Office can now leverage all the great new features provided by Liferay 6.2, including the upgrade to AlloyUI 2.0, the revamped Calendar and Document Library and a new, extensible Notifications portlet.

Additionally the default theme has been updated to provide an alternative look and feel for Sites, including the Users Dashboard and Profile pages.

Bug Reporting

As always, the project continues to use the Social Office JIRA site to report and manage bug and improvement tickets. If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release (shocking, I know), please be cognizant of the bug reporting standards and report your issue on issues.liferay.com, selecting the SOS project and the "3.0 CE GA1" release as the value for the "Affects Version/s" field.

Next (Development) Releases

The Liferay Mobile SDK makes it easier to create mobile apps that are connected to Liferay portals: it takes care of authentication, services discovery, JSON parsing and server error handling for you. It hides complexity from the developer and almost feels like you are making local service calls from a plugin.

For those developers who are familar with Service Builder, the Mobile SDK can be seen as a client side code generator. For each new Liferay Portal version, there will be a corresponding Mobile SDK version that you can use to consume portal core services. Since the SDK is auto-generated, it also means that you can generate client side code for your custom portlet services as well. Right now the Mobile SDK supports iOS and Android.

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the sixth (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the fifth (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the fourth (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the third (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the second (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

This is the first (and possibly last) Release Candidate for 6.2 - thanks to the community for everyone's help!

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

For 6.2, the goal of this Liferay Beta Releases is to validate the Beta-quality releases of Liferay, and ensure that it meets the needs of its community of enthusiasts, users, partners, customers, and developers. Feedback will be taken at high priority to ensure that issues discovered by our community program are considered and acted upon before the release.

Beta 3 is the final Beta release - thanks to the community for everyone's help! We are moving into the Release Candidate phase after this Beta.

We here on the IDE team are pleased to announce the new release of Liferay IDE: Liferay IDE 2.0 Milestone 1. Since this is an Eclipse release all you need is to use the following update site url in the Help > Install New Software... dialog.

This milestone release is the first in a series of milestones leading up to Liferay IDE 2.0 GA release that is planned for just after Liferay Portal 6.2 GA. Below are some highlights Liferay IDE 2.0 M1:

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

For 6.2, the goal of this Liferay Beta Releases is to validate the Beta-quality releases of Liferay, and ensure that it meets the needs of its community of enthusiasts, users, partners, customers, and developers. Feedback will be taken at high priority to ensure that issues discovered by our community program are considered and acted upon before the release.

Liferay relies on its open source community to help validate Liferay releases before they are generally available, to maximize quality before the release. Liferay follows an iterative software release cycle, with interim development builds (called Milestones), followed by a Beta period in which feature-complete builds are produced, and then finally one or more Release Candidate builds, one of which becomes the final release (called the first "GA" release).

For 6.2, the goal of this Liferay Beta Releases is to validate the Beta-quality releases of Liferay, and ensure that it meets the needs of its community of enthusiasts, users, partners, customers, and developers. Feedback will be taken at high priority to ensure that issues discovered by our community program are considered and acted upon before the release.

Liferay has released the sixth milestone build of the next version of Liferay. This milestone includes most if not all of the bug fixes based on the feedback from the bug squad in previous milestones, as well as several new features.

Liferay has released the fifth milestone build of the next version of Liferay. This milestone includes most if not all of the bug fixes based on the feedback from the bug squad in previous milestones, as well as several new features.

Liferay has released the third milestone build of the next version of Liferay. This milestone comes a few weeks after Milestones 1 and 2 and includes most if not all of the bug fixes based on the feedback from the bug squad as well as many several new features.

This build is not suitable for production use and no support or guarantee of any kind is implied.

Bug Reporting

When reporting bugs against this Milestone, be sure to select 6.2.0 CE M3 from for the Affected Version/s field. Also, consider participating in BugSquad!

BugSquad

BugSquad is a volunteer team, whose main goal is to improve the quality and usability of Liferay project releases before they are generally available. Team members provide valuable feedback from their day-to-day usage of Liferay, incorporating the way they use Liferay directly into the resulting product. In addition, team members gain valuable experience in using the Liferay platform, both in existing features and functionality, and upcoming new features.

Liferay has released the fourth milestone build of the next version of Liferay. This milestone includes most if not all of the bug fixes based on the feedback from the bug squad in previous milestones, as well as several new features.

This build is not suitable for production use and no support or guarantee of any kind is implied.

Bug Reporting

When reporting bugs against this Milestone, be sure to select 6.2.0 CE Mx from for the Affected Version/s field. Also, consider participating in BugSquad!

BugSquad

BugSquad is a volunteer team, whose main goal is to improve the quality and usability of Liferay project releases before they are generally available. Team members provide valuable feedback from their day-to-day usage of Liferay, incorporating the way they use Liferay directly into the resulting product. In addition, team members gain valuable experience in using the Liferay platform, both in existing features and functionality, and upcoming new features.

Milestone 1 represents an interim build of the next version of Liferay Portal. It includes many bugfixes and a few notable, but not yet completed features:

New WCM Management Interface

Application Display Templates

Recycle Bin

Enterprise Calendar

This build is not suitable for production use and no support or guarantee of any kind is implied. For a complete list of changes, see the Release Notes.

Bug Reporting

When reporting bugs against this Milestone, be sure to select 6.2.0 CE Mx from for the Affected Version/s field. Also, consider participating in BugSquad!

BugSquad

BugSquad is a volunteer team, whose main goal is to improve the quality and usability of Liferay project releases before they are generally available. Team members provide valuable feedback from their day-to-day usage of Liferay, incorporating the way they use Liferay directly into the resulting product. In addition, team members gain valuable experience in using the Liferay platform, both in existing features and functionality, and upcoming new features.

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay chapter of the Liferay User Guide for more detail on upgrading to 6.2.

Liferay Developer Studio is the official set of Eclipse plug-ins supporting development for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition application platform.

It is available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins installable from an update-site. The latest version supports developing 5 Liferay plug-in types: portlets, hooks, layout templates, themes, and EXT-style plug-ins. Liferay Developer Studio requires the Eclipse Java EE developer package using either Galileo or Helios versions.

Liferay Developer Studio is also available to current or potential EE customers that includes support for Websphere and Weblogic server adapters. For a free trial version, click the Trial Download link!

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay chapter of the Liferay User Guide for more detail on upgrading to 6.2.

Liferay Developer Studio is the official set of Eclipse plug-ins supporting development for the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition application platform.

It is available as a set of Eclipse plug-ins installable from an update-site. The latest version supports developing 5 Liferay plug-in types: portlets, hooks, layout templates, themes, and EXT-style plug-ins. Liferay Developer Studio requires the Eclipse Java EE developer package using either Galileo or Helios versions.

Liferay Developer Studio is also available to current or potential EE customers that includes support for Websphere and Weblogic server adapters. For a free trial version, click the Trial Download link!

Upgrading from Previous Releases

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay chapter of the Liferay User Guide for more detail on upgrading to 6.2.

Liferay Social Office is a social collaboration solution for the enterprise that streamlines communication, saves time, builds group cohesion and raises productivity. It is built on Liferay Portal, and shares much of its functionality.

What's New

Social Office 3.0 EE GA1 contains a variety of bug fixes (see release notes) and is now available for download from Liferay's Marketplace. For those already using Social Office, you will have the option to upgrade through the Marketplace page in your portal Control Panel. Thanks for your input on our previous release!

Social Office can now leverage all the great new features provided by Liferay 6.2, including the upgrade to AlloyUI 2.0, the revamped Calendar and Document Library and a new, extensible Notifications portlet.

Additionally the default theme has been updated to provide an alternative look and feel for Sites, including the Users Dashboard and Profile pages.

Bug Reporting

As always, the project continues to use the Social Office JIRA site to report and manage bug and improvement tickets. If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release (shocking, I know), please be cognizant of the bug reporting standards and report your issue on issues.liferay.com, selecting the SOS project and the "3.0 CE GA1" release as the value for the "Affects Version/s" field.

AlloyUI is a UI metaframework that provides a consistent and simple API for building web applications across all three levels of the browser: structure, style and behavior. It incorporates three design languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

It is used extensively in many of Liferay's open source projects, such as Liferay Portal, Liferay Social Office, and many more!

The latest release, AlloyUI 2.5, incorporates a ton of new features and the project has been re-engineered from the ground up, while providing support for prior releases.

Release Details

Release Naming

Following Liferay's official versioning scheme, this release is Liferay Portal 6.2 CE GA2. The internal version number is 6.2.1 (i.e. the first update release of 6.2). Future CE releases of 6.2 will be designated GA3, GA4, .. and so on (assuming they are needed to fix issues, which is not always the case). See below for upgrade instructions from 6.2 CE GA1, 6.1.x, 6.0.x, and 5.x.

Downloads

You can find the 6.2 CE GA2 release on the usual downloads page. If you need additional files (for example, the source code, or dependency libraries), visit the additional files page.

Source Code

As Liferay is an open source project, many of you will want to get at its guts. The source is available as a zip archive on the downloads page, or in its source code repository on Github. Many community contributions went into this release, and hopefully many more in future releases! If you're interested in contributing, take a look at our contribution page.

What's New / Changed?

This update fixes many issues, but here are some of the more important and/or popular ones that you may be interested in:

Support Matrix

Also, Liferay recently published the official support matrix for 6.1 and 6.2, which lists the exact versions of software that Liferay is supported with. You no longer have to wonder which exact version of GNU Hurd you can run Liferay on (Hint: The Hurd is not supported :) ).

Liferay Marketplace

Most Liferay-authored plugins were updated to support 6.2 GA1 when it was first released, and remain compatible with this updated GA2 release.

If you are a Marketplace Developer, and have authored a 6.2 CE GA1-compatible app, you should ensure your app continues to work with this 6.2 CE GA2 release. It is Liferay's aim to remain compatible within a given release family, so in the unlikely event that your app works with GA1 but NOT GA2, you will need to make any necessary changes and re-submit, and let the Marketplace team know about any incompatibilities you discovered. Chances are you will have nothing to do (since you declared compatibility with 6.2.0+, which includes 6.2.1).

Also, Marketplace developers should be sure to check out the new Marketplace Developer Portal, and get access to a one-stop shop of resources for... well, you get the idea. It's for app developers. Go there and learn.

Bug Reporting

As always, the project continues to use issues.liferay.com to report and manage bug and feature requests. If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release (shocking, I know), please be cognizant of the bug reporting standards and report your issue on issues.liferay.com, selecting the 6.2.1 CE GA2 release as the value for the Affects Version/s field.

Upgrading

Good news for those of you on 6.0 or prior! Liferay introduced the seamless upgrade feature with Liferay 6.1. Seamless upgrades allow Liferay to be upgraded more easily. In most cases, pointing the latest version of Liferay to the database of the older version is enough. There are some caveats though, so be sure to check out the Upgrading Liferay chapter of the Liferay User Guide for more detail on upgrading to this release.

Getting Support

Support for Liferay 6.2 CE comes from the wonderful and active community, from which Liferay itself was nurtured into the enterprise offering it is today. Please visit the community pages to find out more about the myriad avenues through which you can get your questions answered.

Also note that customers on existing releases such as 6.0 and 6.1 continue to be professionally supported, and the documentation, source, and other ancillary data about these releases will remain in place.

What's Next

Of course we in the Liferay Community are interested in your take on the new features in Liferay 6.2 and the updates in this GA2 release. Work has already begun on the next evolution of Liferay, based on user feedback and community ideas. If you are interested in learning more about how you can get involved, visit the Liferay Community pages and dig in.

Kudos!

This release was produced by Liferay's worldwide portal engineering team, and involved many hours of development, testing, writing documentation, translating, testing some more, and working with the wider Liferay community of customers, partners, and open source developers to incorporate all sorts of contributions, both big and small. We are glad you have chosen to use Liferay, and hope that it meets or exceeds your expectations!

In addition to Liferay's engineering staff, a special thanks goes to the many open source developers who volunteered their time and energy to help with the release, whether it was bugfixing, idea generation, documentation, translations, testing, or other contribution that helped to improve this release. Check out the Community Contributor Hall of Fame and be sure to thank them if you run across them in the community!

Liferay Sync is Liferay's newest product, designed to make file sharing as easy as a simple drag-and-drop! It exposes and synchronizes content and documents to both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android. It'll also log all your document changes and versions.

Version 1.2 adds support for Liferay Portal 6.2 CE and EE and fixes several minor issues. More details in the Release Notes.